Castlevania 3 Final Boss Dracula - No Damage No Subweapons 

You're telling me, you have to make it all the way through the stage and fight three forms of Dracula without any continues or power ups? Are you mad?? How are you supposed to do that?? - Angry Video Game Nerd

Way to show everyone how it's done, man. I was intrigued to see how you did it with little trouble after seeing the AVGN's videos.

The easiest way to do this is to grab the axe right before the pendulum room and farm candles before Dracula until you get 40 hearts & the triple shot. Then spam axes at his 2nd & third form.

The Nerd needs to see this

Took me 3 days and this guy took minutes bruh you're a legend.

I played through this whole game using only Trevor, and this final stage was definitely one of the most difficult video game experiences I've ever had. Finally beating it was one of my most satisfying gaming moments :)

You make it look so easy!

Those 8-bit screams

0:43, Trevor- Well that's a stupid thing to do Dracula. I don't think that form has a very stable biological structure.

I know this game is beyond old, but something about this music and this fight just gets me all jazzed up. You fight well! Worthy of the name, Belmont.

It doesn't look hard, but after slaving away the entire game, it feels hard. The whole game drains you, making the bosses feel harder than they really are. Also, fuck that forest level. Fucking owls.

Apperently Draculas 3rd form is actually the Dark God he made a pact with according to the Japanese Manuel. So I believe like in ninja gaiden, Dracula was destroyed on his 2nd form and then the Dark God statue springs to life to try and finish what Dracula started.

That was really good, I'm down at the final boss and trying to finish it without sucking too much. I've been using Alucard's bat form to avoid the fire pillars. It's a real pain in the rear but you can land two hits then fly away with no damage whatsoever.

Man, the sound effect for Dracula's final form being hit rules.

Dracula has a long history of getting his face whipped to pieces...

I had no idea the big boss music from Circle of the Moon was a remix. That's pretty cool.

The music is soooo intense! One of the best final boss experiences. The fact that there's no checkpoint before the boss only made my heart pump faster.

16 axes to beat Dracula's final form, and you have to jump and land each of them, without getting hit by lasers or falling in the pit in the center. Always save those sixteen axes for the demon form at the end. The hardest part of this is just staying on the ground, with that stupid floating ledge moving about catching your jumps, while you dodge the laser beam patterns and lob axes. But yes, this boss is ridiculously Dark Souls, the first few times you fight it. You even have to fight your way back to it, and scale a couple pendulums with bats over a bottomless pit, every time you fuck it up. And if you let the first form get too close to you, it will always trap you in an undodgable trio of flame pillars. Doing it with just the whip is a fucking nightmare. And then... the second run on hard mode with skulls instead of medusa heads just gets purely ridiculous.

"You should use axes, Trevor"

Still the hardest Castlevania for me. It's so random at so many points in the game, I can't quite handle it like I handle Castlevania 1 or Dracula X (both SNES and Rondo, although Rondo is pretty easy anyways). I've been following for a long while now, can't believe its been about 7 years now.

I can't wait to see this animated on Netflix.

"well thats a stupid thing to do Dracula, i dont think that kind of form is a very stable biological structure"

I love Draculas design in this. It's like The Blaspherion made flesh, but that of flesh is crushed by that of the "mountain", ( in this case, Belmont/ Belmondo).

This Third form of Dracula is the coolest thing i've seen before SotN final boss (Dracula in his throne flying)

The final form is SO much easier as grant, the lasers are much easier to dodge and if you jump to soon to hit the head, you can recover from it thanks to his controllable jump

God, that face form is creepy. But I suppose that was the intention.

The graphics in this game are great (considering). The music is great, too. The sound effects are very satisfying, too.

Good thing this game is now on the EShop.

I only used VirtuaNES 0.92 with default palette and 2xSaI filter. Nothing else.

Very patient in this strategy!

This Dracula is what all of Dr. Wily's robots wanted to be when they grew up.

Nicely done.

@Bendetoma Unless you stand very close to Dracula the flames will give some space to avoid third flame.

It's weird how they changed Alucard's design from this game to Symphony of the night, either way it worked

0:43 Is one of the coolest boss forms EVER

I just beat this game, at 12:10 a.m. And I even defeated Dracula as Alucard! And it was the first time I ever beat NES Castlevania 3!

This greatly helped me out on figuring the first form, second form is piss-easy. Third form is giving me a little trouble with the platforms slowly giving me less and less room to the point where I fall off the ledge by mistake. Thanks, no less.

Distance is your friend. The farther away you are from Dracula, the farther apart the fire bars are, and the giant fire bar is controlled depending on where you are standing. This is present in US and Japan. I have a complete list of perfect runs for Castlevania 3 (Japan) if you want to see what I am talking about.

Oh. Dracula can shape-shift apparently.

I still can't believe I cleared the 2nd quest of this game with all the characters as a child (got to love the bouncing skulls that replace the medusa heads...). By that point I had gotten so good I was able to bring the Lightning spell from the previous stage all the way to Dracula. Still didn't do it with no sub-items though :P

I remember beating tis game with every character, even without them (I mean Sylpha, Grant, and Alucard). I LOVED tis game, and recently downloaded the Japanese version to my PSP (couldn't find the US ROM). Great video.

@Shadowserg Also, check out "Overture" from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Now available in Original and Arranged versions!

The level was so much harder than the boss is but the boss is way more satisfying to beat.

FUN FACT: Almost every Konami console game from the 8bit and 16bit era was harder in their western ports. Castlevania 1 had an easy mode option in Japan. The Contra sequels tended to have superior cheat codes, unlimited continues, or in one case a life bar that was removed from the western ports. Their famous beat-em-ups were usually toned down in Japan. Bayou Billy was so insanely tougher in its western release its practically a different game.

You made this look easy,well done.

0:40 I dread to see what that would look like in HD

Holy hell, this is true skill. I bow to you, sir.

Thanks for the explanation:) Didn't read the info of the video:)

@TheWaynelds Well, this is a rather old video. The one in responses is newer (not much, though) and I did better there.

just wondering how this will be in the anime on netflix sense its based on the third game and dracula has 3 forms

Damn. How long did it take you to find the best strategy for his final form? I remember falling into the holes countless times...

I was amazed I did this today with one bar of health left. You have got some serious skills.

the phase 2 and 3 music is used too in some circle of the moon bosses

That looked tricky, well done!

The final level in the us version is way harder then in the japanese version, 1 if you die by the boss, you get sended back to the 2nd part of the level. 2 on those moving platforms, you do get interrupted by those annoying bags. 3 if you fight the 3th boss, he will shoot lasers at you in all directions including in up directions. 4 those spiders seems to appear at more places.

Bravo young man, bravo

@Shadowserg Exactly, it appears in the "Zombie Dragons" boss

Oh wow... O.O I heard this was the hardest. Bravo to you.

@filipepw It is the same version, but since it's an emulator he changed the graphics filter.

@PrivateeRyann He DID actually know how to do it. It shows a clip of AVGN trying to beat the second form. I think that the farther you stand away from Dracula in the first form the more open the space inbetween the flames.

I knew AVGN was doing something wrong. Anyway, you made this battle look so easy, congrats!

Now THAT'S a Belmont!

Great job!

In my friend's version, which I played 5 years ago, his third form could also shoot all of those lasers randomly from ceiling and walls.

0:43 Me and the boys in the McD’s parking lot at 3AM having eaten $50 worth of Travis Scott Burgers

You're a brave soul for taking on Dracula with the dagger! I prefer to use the axe - it's a lot easier to handle the final form with.

I remember getting this game for christmas as a kid... It was one of my favorite games ever, but it was sooo difficult. I could never beat Dracula :( Still can't lol

Defeating Dracula with only the whip...You sir are a true Belmont

Man, that was impressive, i'm guessing that patience is the name of the game, good video.

I tried to hold my tears bacl before Dracula was Killed, who knew you'd feel sorry for the the Symbol of Halloween! 😢😢🦇💔

you sir, are a god amongst men

Amazing 👏

what a beast! :D

Notice the graphics, you can see this is played on an emulator with save states. The emulators offer several types of vga filters to smooth the graphics, add scanlines etc.

Hey Shadowserg, could I use your footage for remixes I'm doing in the future? I'll be sure to credit you and link the resulting videos once they're made. Thanks

@gilturtle The Boss in AVGN video has other patern. He has no room to dodge the fire colums. A glitch maybe ?

@ali100045 The Boss in AVGN video has other patern. He has no room to dodge the fire colums. A glitch maybe ?

mad skills, respect

Patience is a virtue.

Well done! .Just beat the game myself too. Used save state alot though 🤓 tough game to beat!

Use the holy water trick. Start throwing holy water before he comes down, it will stun him and do damage as long as you keep throwing it. It might be the "cheap" way to do it but it was even recommended in manual for the next CV game. And it's better than never seeing the rest of such a great game.

his second form is really scary

That happens for the reason Arek stated. If you stand too close to Dracula, the pillars will be closer together. You can see that on both the Grant and Sypha videos from this channel, as well as how he avoids it with Grant.

In the first clip there should be enough room for the middle fire geyser and Belmont to say separate within the fire wall had the nerd just moved tactically. That's at 11:00. But the following 2 clips there aren't any room for both Belmont and the middle fire geyser to stay separate. He literally can't stand anywhere within the firewall without getting hit. I only played the first game so is that something that sometimes happens and the nerd was just being unfortunate?

This player is a master.

Hmm, i wonder at the beginning, when AVGN reviewed this, the 2 flames that trap you were way more close together so there was no way to avoid the third flame. I mean, i never played the game, but did he something wrong or is this just a little bit easier version of dracula?

no, i'm pretty sure i have the american version because the beams aren't smaller but they break apart along the floor which makes them harder to dodge..

Which EMU are you using for this video I've used jnes, and some other one I forget the name of

@Shadowserg hey how come the fire does not hit u at the beginning is it the difficulty level on easy or is it a dif version? cause i never can get away, thanks in advance

The AVGN also does that stuff for comedy. I just finished the fight with Drac today. His first form was hardest, second a joke, third was so-so. It had one of the best NES endings though. I would compare it up there with Ninja Gaiden's.

@MrLunitunz OHhh sorry, sometimes i skip descriptions. You must say though, that it was a legit complaint. I know that AVGN tends to exagerates things sometimes

now i understand the origin of that strange bird like statue in the skeleton den in harmony of dissonance anyway nice job man

@Vitacrucis True. The game is hard, but damn if it isn't fun. They made the US version more difficult here than the Japanese. His third form beams are longer and wider than the Japanese version.

@Tuby1395 That shouldn't change the actual gameplay... Unless there is also a PC version, but I've never heard of that?

where you'll have some weird lingering parts of it that were slightly off from the rest of the lasers?

Lol I decided to find a video like this right after i watched the AVGN video and it's either really not that hard or dude playing Castlevania here has some mad skills

Well i use the FCEU, i will chek if it has that option, its like the x2 sal rite?

nice.some kids who have never played the old castlevanias would watch this and think that boss wasn't even hard.until you have that old block in your hands and you feel those old school controls and the way you have to time your jumps with your attacks.it's a challenge to beat period let alone no damage at all! you are the boss sir

AVGN would be proud

@bcawthon2191 Syfa is the best char in the game... Freeze spell makes half the levels a breeze and her fireball spell does the most damage out of ever attack in game. True, she has to use hearts for every attack but it's just 1 heart per spell.